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Permalink Reply by Richard Webb on January 7, 2010 at 5:22pm

The Sugar Maple is one of my very favorite trees, in the top ten anyway. I don't have any in my small quarter acre yard. When I bough the house almost 8 years ago, there was only lawn. I planted 3 larger shade trees and 10 smaller ornamental trees. The closest is a Red Maple. If I had silty soil rather than all clay soil I would have been happy to plant one of the cultivars of Black Sugar Maple that grows a little faster and tolerates drought more than the regular mother species of Sugar Maple.

Permalink Reply by Tracey z6PA on January 25, 2010 at 7:43am

Hey Sparticuss - does the tree need to be fully mature? I'm afraid my sugar maple is only still a young 'un.

Permalink Reply by Sparticuss The Gardenest on January 25, 2010 at 10:21pm

No Tracey, typically you would tap a tree that is minimally 8-10 inches in diameter, but not until that point. I actually tapped about a 10 inch tree this year, it was the first time I've tapped it since it was always too small, and it is producing about 3/4 of what a large maple produces. GOOD LUCK!!!

Tracey Yasi z6PA said:

Hey Sparticuss - does the tree need to be fully mature? I'm afraid my sugar maple is only still a young 'un.

Permalink Reply by Sandy Buckley on February 7, 2010 at 11:54am

Anybody out there from Susquehanna County??

Permalink Reply by Sparticuss The Gardenest on February 8, 2010 at 8:27am

Butler County here!